Herbaspirillum
| Herbaspirillum | |
|---|---|
| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Bacteria |
| Kingdom: | Pseudomonadati |
| Phylum: | Pseudomonadota |
| Class: | Betaproteobacteria |
| Order: | Burkholderiales |
| Family: | Oxalobacteraceae |
| Genus: | Herbaspirillum Baldani et al. 1986 |
| Type species | |
| Herbaspirillum seropedicae | |
| Species | |
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H. aquaticum [1] | |
Herbaspirillum is a genus of bacteria, including the nitrogen-fixing Herbaspirillum lusitanum.[3]
Although usually found in soil environments, it has also been identified as a contaminant of DNA extraction kit reagents, which may lead to its erroneous appearance in microbiota or metagenomic datasets.[4]
References
- ^ a b "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2016-03-04. Retrieved 2013-01-14.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) - ^ Parte, A.C. "Herbaspirillum". LPSN.
- ^ Parker, Charles Thomas; Wigley, Sarah; Garrity, George M (2009). Parker, Charles Thomas; Garrity, George M (eds.). "Nomenclature Abstract for Herbaspirillum Baldani et al. 1986 emend. Carro et al. 2012". The NamesforLife Abstracts. doi:10.1601/nm.1705.
- ^ Salter, Susannah J.; Cox, Michael J.; Turek, Elena M.; Calus, Szymon T.; Cookson, William O.; Moffatt, Miriam F.; Turner, Paul; Parkhill, Julian; Loman, Nicholas J.; Walker, Alan W. (2014). "Reagent and laboratory contamination can critically impact sequence-based microbiome analyses". BMC Biology. 12 87. bioRxiv 10.1101/007187. doi:10.1186/s12915-014-0087-z. PMC 4228153. PMID 25387460.